Positive Thoughts – We Are Family: Finding family when you don’t think you can make your own

One of the first disco albums I ever owned, We Are Family by Sister Sledge, I didn’t actually buy, but I won in a radio call-in contest in the spring of 1979. I was living at home at the time and remember driving down to the local Southwest Michigan radio station to pick it up, excited to have won. The enduring club anthem about having "all my sisters with me" has always been a part of my ethos for my entire adult life, and I still have the vinyl record in my possession. I can’t seem...